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10. Roots and Zeros
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Exercise 74 Page 79

Construct a table to find all of the possible values of the expression for each of the values from the replacement set.

± 1, ± 2, ± 4, ± 8, ± 1/5, ± 2/5, ± 4/5, ± 8/5

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To find all of the possible values of ± ba, replace both variables with each value from the replacement sets and simplify the expression.

± a b ±b/a Simplify
+ 1 1 +1/1 1
- 1 1 -1/1 -1
+ 1 2 +2/1 2
- 1 2 -2/1 -2
+ 1 4 +4/1 4
- 1 4 -4/1 -4
+ 1 8 +8/1 8
- 1 8 -8/1 -8
+ 5 1 +1/5 1/5
- 5 1 -1/5 -1/5
+ 5 2 +2/5 2/5
- 5 2 -2/5 -2/5
+ 5 4 +4/5 4/5
- 5 4 -4/5 -4/5
+ 5 8 +8/5 8/5
- 5 8 -8/5 -8/5

We can now write all of the possible values of ± ba. ± 1, ± 2, ± 4, ± 8, ± 1/5, ± 2/5, ± 4/5, ± 8/5